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(ɪnfɔːʳməʳ)
Word forms: plural informers
countable noun
An informer is a person who tells the police that someone has done something illegal.
...two men suspected of being police informers.
Synonyms: betrayer, grass [British, slang], sneak, squealer [slang] More Synonyms of informer

informer in British English

(ɪnˈfɔːmə)
noun
1. 
a person who informs against someone, esp a criminal
2. 
a person who provides information
he was the President's financial informer

informer in American English

(ɪnˈfɔrmər)
noun
a person who secretly accuses, or gives evidence against, another, often for a reward

Examples of 'informer' in a sentence
informer

But this is beyond political disputes become an informer.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Others claim he may have turned police informer while rivals envied his power over the younger generation.
The Sun (2015)
Officers said one reason for the killing may have been rumours the gangster had turned informer.
The Sun (2016)
They were warned of the danger of informers and secret police trying to foil them.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is thought that his attackers may have wrongly suspected him of being a police informer.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This time, they tried to persuade him to become an informer.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And then he decided to go back to Ireland and become an informer.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Yes, she was a police informer.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The use of police informers was discredited in the 1980s after a series of convictions were quashed on appeal.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In 1876 revolutionary conspirators decided to murder one of their own whom they suspected of being a police informer.
Michael Burleigh Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the GreatWar (2005)
So he turned police informer.
The Sun (2010)
Typically fans are alerted by text message or e-mail about an upcoming concert and are then vetted to weed out police informers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The call on members of the public to turn informer is focused on the annual splurge of spending around the Chinese new year.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She's offered a chance to avoid jail by turning informer - but will she take it?
The Sun (2013)
This was the world of secret police, of informers, of accusation and of terror.
Charles Glass The Tribes Triumphant (2006)
The choice of speakers, said the police informer, was disgraceful.
Hebblethwaite, Peter Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993)
It was his contacts with police and informers in the South African underworld that helped to unearth much of the evidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

In other languages
informer

British English: informer NOUN
An informer is a person who tells the police that someone has done something illegal.
...two men suspected of being police informers.
  • American English: informer
  • Brazilian Portuguese: delator
  • Chinese: 告密者
  • European Spanish: informador
  • French: indicateur
  • German: Informant
  • Italian: informatore
  • Japanese: 通報者
  • Korean: 정보원
  • European Portuguese: delator
  • Latin American Spanish: informador

(noun) 
Definition
a person who informs to the police
two men suspected of being police informers
Synonyms
betrayer
a traitor and betrayer
grass (British, slang)
He preferred to take the rap rather than be a grass.
sneak
He is disloyal, distrustful and a sneak.
squealer (slang)
Judas
The first time I left Sheffield Wednesday, they accused me of being a Judas.
accuser
stool pigeon
nark (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang)
fizgig (Australian, slang)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of grass
Definition
a person who informs, usually on criminals
He preferred to take the rap rather than be a grass.
Synonyms
betrayer,
sneak,
squealer (slang),
Judas,
accuser,
stool pigeon,
nark (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang)
in the sense of Judas
Definition
a person who betrays a friend
The first time I left Sheffield Wednesday, they accused me of being a Judas.
Synonyms
traitor,
betrayer,
deceiver,
renegade,
turncoat
in the sense of sneak
Definition
a person who acts in an underhand or cowardly manner
He is disloyal, distrustful and a sneak.
Synonyms
informer,
grass (British, slang),
betrayer,
telltale,
squealer (slang),
Judas,
accuser,
stool pigeon,
snake in the grass,
nark (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang),
fizgig (Australian, slang)

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